Janice Williams Loves Austin

I really don’t want my blog to be just about music. It should also be about all the other fun Austin things I do:  Swimming at Barton Springs, riding my bike up to Mt. Bonnell, enjoying the balcony patio of the Stephen F. Austin hotel, seeing movies at the Paramount Summer Movie Series or the Alamo’s new downtown theater. Sadly, I don’t DO any of those things, so the writing tends to be about the music. Not entirely a bad thing, of course.

Last night was Mark McKinney and Bart Crow at Hill’s Cafe. I’m not a big fan of the music of either, but they are both very nice guys. I met Bart first at the station for an interview and he brought his soon-to-be wife Brooke with him. A very nice couple and he was a good interview. I never had Mark on my show, but I met him when he opened for Kevin Fowler out at the Nutty Brown last year. When I discovered he was from my dad’s hometown of Big Spring, I quizzed him on whether he knew my cousins out there. Know them? He and my “little” cousin Lyle were in their first band together. A very small world indeed. I had a chance to visit with both of them last night for a while and thoroughly enjoyed it. They both take their music and “job” very seriously and I always appreciate how hard these guys work to entertain.
I did enjoy the night and the music and the visiting. There are always lots of people to visit with at Hill’s. And that was my day. The End.